Topic > Portrayal of Women in The Great Gatsby - 1342

Myrtle and Daisy reflect how money and wealth have a great influence on women during this era. While Jordan shows how being independent is better than holding on to a cheating husband because he's rich. Fitzgerald does a fantastic job capturing the stupidity, selfishness, and lack of loyalty of these women in the 1920s. The characters of the three women were very different but at the same time similar. The main characteristic they share is living life comfortably with money and nice things. Daisy, Myrtle and Jordan show how being greedy, unreliable and superficial always ends